Striping Tape

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Ashfleeburgooben

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Hi all,

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but I want to make sure I get this right the first time.

I want to stripe a whole bunch of tapes before I go into shooting and although I'm familiar with the process, I am not familiar with whether or not the 24p affects anything.

Is my best bet to use Premiere Pro to output color bars to the camera or should I use the color bar option built in to the DVX?

Also, what settings should I be using? I assume I should be in 24pa mode and not send any audio through. I just turned off Input 2 and switched both audio inputs to Input 2.

I am probably over complicating this process but any help clarifying would be appreciated!

Thanks!
 
Re: Striping Tape

Well, it's not a particularly necessary step. The DVX does quite well without striping. I've never had a timecode break.

No need to put a generation of wear on the tape.

But, if you really want to do it, don't worry about things like "24pA." Everything recorded to tape is in 60i and has a 29.97-frame timecode.
 
Re: Striping Tape

Now, I could be wrong about this, but I don't know of any camera that records without laying down new control track, so striping a tape for camera is a pointless excercise. The only times i've ever striped any tape was when it was going to be used in tape to tape linear insert editing.

The idea behind color bars is to set a standard for how each machine records video information. By placing a standardized set of colors and luminosity at the begining of a tape, it's easy to then calibrate the playback of whatever machine that tape is placed in. Thus if your capture machine is biased in any direction, you can adjust that machine so that the color bars read as standard, thus insuring that your recorded picture is being correctly displayed.

Because of this, it's important that you record your color bars on the camera you're using. Your camera's internal color bars are the standard that tells you how that camera records video signals. When it comes time to output an edit, youd want to use the bars inside premiere because those are the standard showing how your editor displays video signals.

It's much more pointless in a digital environment because you're talking about raw data transfer and not variable changes to the video signal caused be differing electronics and tape heads. So I'd go as far as to say that you can skip color bars in an all digital workflow, but if your tape is intended for duplication or broadcast, you're going to want those color bars on your final product.
 
Re: Striping Tape

Gah! So many differing opinions! I have read about 20 different people's opinions on this and none of them match exactly!

I do appreciate your replies though, and they have helped me understand a little bit better.

I'll just have to experiment a bit and see how things work out.

Thanks again for your replies!
 
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